The University of Otago is to conduct a two-year study on the emotional and social impacts of Mycoplasma bovis, a contagious disease that has forced New Zealand dairy farmers to cull more than 150,000 cows.
The study is led by Fiona Doolan-Noble, a senior research fellow with the university’s rural health department, and will focus on farms in the Southland dairy region of the South Island.
The NZ government launched an $886-million eradication programme for the disease in 2018, after the disease was detected in July 2017 on Southland dairy farms.
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